What About Women Deacons? (in the Catholic Church)

I think that anyone may validly hear a confession in extremis if no priest is available.

Well I suppose anyone can hear a confession at any time, but if by that you're implying that anyone can also administer absolution you are incorrect. That is reserved for priests and bishops only. No matter what the circumstances.

Catholic Encyc

Mary and Our Lord's Resurrection

The inspired record of the incidents connected with Christ's Resurrection do not mention Mary; but neither do they pretend to give a complete account of all that Jesus did or said. The Fathers too are silent as to Mary's share in the joys of her Son's triumph over death. Still, St. Ambrose [95] states expressly: "Mary therefore saw the Resurrection of the Lord; she was the first who saw it and believed. Mary Magdalen too saw it, though she still wavered". George of Nicomedia [96] infers from Mary's share in Our Lord's sufferings that before all others and more than all she must have shared in the triumph of her Son. In the twelfth century, an apparition of the risen Saviour to His Blessed Mother is admitted by Rupert of Deutz [97], and also by Eadmer [98] St. Bernardin of Siena [99], St. Ignatius of Loyola [100], Suarez [101], Maldonado [102], etc. [103] That the risen Christ should have appeared first to His Blessed Mother, agrees at least with our pious expectations.

Though the Gospels do not expressly tell us so, we may suppose that Mary was present when Jesus showed himself to a number of disciples in Galilee and at the time of His Ascension (cf. Matthew 28:7, 10, 16; Mark 16:7). Moreover, it is not improbable that Jesus visited His Blessed Mother repeatedly during the forty days after His Resurrection.

So you're saying that she actually "obeyed" an instruction to say Mass? Where exactly is this? California?

I would assume that you're either (a) not really sure about what she did or did not do -- or (b) just stretching the truth a bit to attempt to prove a point.

So you're saying that she actually "obeyed" an instruction to say Mass? Where exactly is this? California?

She didn't say Mass, she gave communion, and gave last rites.

Hey, your argument isn't with me, it's with the Archdiocese of Cinncinati circa mid-70s.

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